Damastes of Sigeum ( grc, Δαμάστης) was a Greek geographer and historian in the 5th century BC from

Sigeum Sigeion (Ancient Greek: , ''Sigeion''; Latin: ''Sigeum'') was an ancient Greek city in the north-west of the Troad region of Anatolia located at the mouth of the Scamander (the modern Karamenderes River). Sigeion commanded a ridge between the Aeg ...

. He was probably a pupil of

Hellanicus of Lesbos Hellanicus (or Hellanikos) of Lesbos (Greek: , ''Ἑllánikos ὁ Lésvios''), also called Hellanicus of Mytilene (Greek: , ''Ἑllánikos ὁ Mutilēnaῖos'') was an ancient Greek logographer who flourished during the latter half of the 5th cen ...

. With the exception of a few fragments, his works do not survive. Suda wrote that he had many works including the: *''Events in Greece'' *''On the Children and Ancestors of those who took part in the Expedition to Troy'' (also ascribed by some sources to Polus of Acragas) *''Gazetteer of Peoples and Cities'' *''On Poets and Sophists'' He is mentioned in Dionysius of Halicarnassus work ''Roman Antiquities''.Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Book I, 72
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